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Aspartame Research Needed, Not Coca-Cola Soft Sell

Monday, 26 November 2007, 4:03 pm | Soil and Health Association

The Soil & Health Association is calling for open and independent research into how widespread the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame are on the health and well-being of New Zealanders, following last week’s admission by the Ministry of ... More >>

Urgent Need for Methyl Bromide Moratorium.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 10:01 am | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 8 October 2007 More >>

Marlborough Vineyard Herbicide Use Now 70% Soil

Thursday, 20 September 2007, 3:34 pm | Soil and Health Association

The Soil & Health Association is calling for Sustainable Wine Growing to lift its game, as close to 70% of Marlborough’s grape growing area is currently herbicide sprayed,” said spokesperson Steffan Browning. “No wonder the industry changed ... More >>

Food Safety Authority Shoots the Messenger

Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 10:33 am | Soil and Health Association

Food Safety Authority Continues to Shoot the Messenger The Soil & Health Association is very concerned that New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) staff are hell-bent on ignoring scientific research that clearly shows the links between aspartame and ... More >>

Great Start to Ridding Shops of Agrichemicals

Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 10:07 am | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 22 August 2007 Clopyralid, a Great Start to Ridding Supermarkets of Agrichemicals. The Soil & Health Association welcomes the removal by ERMA of the selective herbicide ... More >>

Formaldehyde Being Swilled down Daily

Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 10:13 am | Soil and Health Association

Formaldehyde Being Swilled down Daily Formaldehyde is one of the synthetic sweetener aspartame's by products, and is an even greater health threat than formaldehyde in imported clothing according to Soil & Health. "Formaldehyde produced in ... More >>

NZFSA Fails Food Test, Bring on the Organics

Thursday, 16 August 2007, 9:49 am | Soil and Health Association

16 August 2007 NZFSA Fails Food Test, Bring on the Organics. Soil & Health is looking forward to the Organics Aotearoa New Zealand Conference at Lincoln University, on Friday & Saturday, following release of NZFSA's Total Diet Survey (TDS) results. ... More >>

1080 A Dirty Green Poison

Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 9:33 am | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 13 August 2007 1080 A Dirty Green Poison The decision by ERMA to allow ongoing aerial drops of 1080 for possum control leaves no real incentive for operators in so-called ... More >>

Nutrition Foundation Short on Credibility

Friday, 3 August 2007, 9:33 am | Soil and Health Association

NZFSA and New Zealand Nutrition Foundation Short on Credibility. "It is time people retired or were fired from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) so New Zealanders might be given independent and reliable information about food safety," ... More >>

Toxins OK For Kiwi Kids But Not For Export Beef?

Wednesday, 1 August 2007, 11:59 am | Soil and Health Association

The Soil & Health Association _supports the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s (NZFSA) tracing and successful prosecution of a farmer who misused the neurotoxic insecticide endosulphan on cattle, and now Soil & Health wants NZFSA to take the ... More >>

School Test: Dump the Diet Coke

Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 1:15 pm | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health wants schools to try a 60-day diet beverage and sugar-free gum break to test for pupil behaviour improvement. Diet and sugar-free products often contain the neurotoxin aspartame. More >>

Aspartame victim "repoisoned"

Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 10:06 am | Soil and Health Association

Components of the artificial sweetener aspartame repoison chewing gum victim Abby Cormack, the 25 year old chewing gum victim who was poisoned with aspartame, has discovered she has been repoisoned. She will present her story at the Wellington ... More >>

GE Food Safety Tests Not Up to Scratch

Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:23 am | Soil and Health Association

Another GE corn has been recommended to be approved as safe for human consumption by Food Standards Australia New Zealand. But the food safety trials used were flawed, and new ones need to be developed, according to the Soil & Health Association. The ... More >>

NZFSA Refuses To Meet Betty Martini

Thursday, 19 July 2007, 10:10 am | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 19 July 2007 NZFSA Refuses To Meet Betty Martini The Soil & Health Association and Safe Food Campaign are calling for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) ... More >>

New editor at Organic NZ

Friday, 6 July 2007, 10:20 am | Soil and Health Association

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ July 5, 2007 Media Release New editor at Organic NZ New Zealand's leading magazine on organics and sustainable living, Organic NZ, has a new editor. Adelia Hallett ... More >>

Scientist says GE approval lacked scrutiny

Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 2:50 pm | Soil and Health Association

A former Crop & Food GE scientist, Dr Elvira Dommisse, said today that proper scrutiny by ERMA of evidence would have prioritised the need for food studies over fund-wasting field trials. More >>

GE Brassica decision lacks justification

Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 12:09 am | Soil and Health Association

Today’s Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) decision approving a Crop and Food application to field trial brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and forage kale) genetically engineered with a toxin derived from the bacterium Bacillus ... More >>

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